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From: David Gingold <uunet!Think.COM!gingold>
Subject: any statue of a chicken

Peter Schickele, reviewing Andre Previn's _No Minor Chords_ in today's New
York Times Book Review concludes:

"No Minor Chords" does have one near-fatal flaw.  Describing a game
of Dictonary...at Mike Nichol's house, Mr. Previn recalls: "Mike
blew an entire round one night by being totally unable to read with
a straight face that the meaning of the given word was 'any statue
of a chicken.'  He was weeping with laughter, and the fact that
this definition turned out to be the true one did not help."  It's
a good story but _what was the word?_  Good god, I mean, some of us
_have to know._  Perhaps Mr Previn's sin of omission can be
corrected in a future edition of this otherwise molto entertaining
book.